Welcome to Girlguiding Oxfordshire
With over 6,000 members, Girlguiding Oxfordshire is a thriving organisation, offering girls in the county the opportunity to build confidence, learn new skills and make friends for life in a unique, girls-only space.
Rainbows are 25!
This summer, the Rainbows will be celebrating their 25th birthday!
Rainbows was formed in 1987 for girls aged five to seven (four to seven in Northern Ireland) and has grown in popularity since, with 71 Rainbow Units in Oxfordshire alone, comprising of over 800 girls! (May 2011).
Share your resources...
Did you know that you can use the Girlguiding Oxfordshire website to share your resources? If you have made a quiz, an activity or game, or anything that you think other Leaders could make use of, then email it to us as a PDF, and we'll put it on the website!
Visit our Resources page to see what we've got up there already.
Congratulations Nikki!
On the 6th January 2012, Andrea Oughton, Oxfordshire Girlguiding County Commissioner, presented Nikki Fairgrieve with her Queen's Guide Award, the highest award possible in Girlguiding.
1st Chesterton Rainbows have tea with Santa!
On Monday 12th December, 1st Chesterton Rainbows held their last meeting of the term at Wyevale’s (Bicester Avenue Garden Centre) where they had tea with Father Christmas.
Girlguiding Oxfordshire County Brownie Pack Holiday
Fifty-six Brownies were lucky enough to attend a county pack hold at Stansfeld outdoor study centre from 25th–27th November 2011.
Read more: Girlguiding Oxfordshire County Brownie Pack Holiday
1st East Hagbourne at the Didcot BACAs!
On 14th October, 1st East Hagbourne Brownies and Guides were proud to be guests at Didcot First's Business and Community Awards.
The Brownie and Guide Leadership team were honoured to be nominated and shortlisted to receive an award and, during the evening, a succession of very worthy businesses and community groups were presented with certificates celebrating their services to areas such as ethical stance and community partnership.
Do you geocache?
Geocaching is a real-world outdoor treasure hunt where players try to locate hidden treasure boxes (‘geocaches’), using GPS-enabled devices.
Read on to find out how you can try
out geocaching with your Guiding unit...
40 Years of 2nd Cumnor Guides
Have you been a Guide or a Guide Leader at 2nd Cumnor Guides in the last 40 Years? Do you have any photographs from your time at 2nd Cumnor Guides, from 1972 to the present day?
I've done something great with Guiding!
Have you done something great with Guiding recently? Or do you have something fabulous planned for the future?
Whether you’ve been on an exciting trip, welcomed a special visitor to a unit meeting, or even won an award, we want to hear about it!
Growing Guiding in Oxfordshire
Have you seen a great example of Growing Guiding in Oxfordshire?
- Recruit, Retain, Recognise
- Great guiding in action
- A new unit opening
- Promotion, Promotion, Promotion
Please let us know about it for a series on Promotion, Promotion, Promotion to go in our Girlguiding Oxfordshire magazine, Oxlip. Read previous issues of Oxlip.